17 December 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Shawn takes a break from running marathons to join Stephen and Kevin as they wrap up an in-depth discussion of paternalism in American Higher Education.
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Aristotle, art, Arthur Chickering, attribution, big data, creativity, diversity, education, FERPA, higher education, Internal Family Systems, Jean Piaget, Kevin, NASPA, parenting, patents, podcasting, Shawn, Stephen, Stitch Fix, student affairs, Switzerland
04 February 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
President Obama’s State of the Union address? Meh. Practicing all your life one of two classical instruments because your mother says so? Snore. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? F***ING AWESOME. Okay, so we couldn’t exactly hit the mediocrity hat trick. BUT on a week when Internets were down in Egypt and Chicago, sickness spread […]
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American exceptionalism, Amy Chua, AT&T, atheism, Barack Obama, Bill Corbett, CERN, China, Community, diversity, Egypt, electric cars, FermiLab, George W Bush, Golden Globes, JFK, Keith Olbermann, Kenny G, Kevin, Kevin Murphy, Kiki, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, Neil DeGrass Tyson, parenting, piano, politics, religion, Ricky Gervais, Robert Heinlein, State of the Union, Stephen, Texas Tech University, They Might Be Giants, Twitter, Uverse, violin, Wall Street Journal, Weird Al Yankovic
22 July 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Ethics is a tricky subject. For some, it’s subjective; anything goes. For others, it can be quite objective; right and wrong can be determined. Here at Texas Tech, ethics has become a full-blown initiative, though perhaps not as full-blown as some would like. Joining us to shine some light on the subject from the inside […]
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Bernie Madoff, Chicago, copyright, Daily Toreador, diversity, Dr. Nathan, education, ethics, Freakonomics, genocide, intelligence, Kant, Kevin, mathematics, Michigan, moral relativism, movies, normative ethics, pedagogy, plagiarism, politics, Predictably Irrational, SACS, Stephen, Steven Levitt, Texas Tech University, values, zombies